Rewriting, relative paths and themes

[Graham]

I have a problem that I can see the reason for but cannot figure out a
solution.

I am using a simple URL rewriter to map www.me.com/1/2/3/4/product.aspx to
www.me.com/product?filter=1/2/3/4 to make my site Google-friendly. The site
dynamically adopts the correct master pages and themes according to a host
header-based query in SQL 2005 and via a custom sqlsitemapdatasource
automagically configures a breadcrumb and menus, all of which work
wonderfully.
However the theme's stylesheet is always declared in the page as a relative
reference (e.g. "Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css") which means that for the
rewritten rule the browser client will be looking for
"www.me.com/1/2/3/4/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css". Does anybody have a way
of specifying that this be output as a url relative to root
("~/blah/blah/...") as I don't want to have to do a replace on render because
of the hit per page that would incur.

Ta!!

[Stefano]

Hi,

I think the only way to solve this problem is to put the reference to the
css as absolute url:
"/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css"

When you insert a "/" as the first character, the browser always points to
the root of the site.

HTH

Bye,
Stefano

"Graham" <Gr****@discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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I have a problem that I can see the reason for but cannot figure out a
solution.

I am using a simple URL rewriter to map www.me.com/1/2/3/4/product.aspx to
www.me.com/product?filter=1/2/3/4 to make my site Google-friendly. The site dynamically adopts the correct master pages and themes according to a host
header-based query in SQL 2005 and via a custom sqlsitemapdatasource
automagically configures a breadcrumb and menus, all of which work
wonderfully.
However the theme's stylesheet is always declared in the page as a relative reference (e.g. "Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css") which means that for the
rewritten rule the browser client will be looking for
"www.me.com/1/2/3/4/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css". Does anybody have a way of specifying that this be output as a url relative to root
("~/blah/blah/...") as I don't want to have to do a replace on render because of the hit per page that would incur.

Ta!!

[Graham]

Hi there

Yes that would be the solution but the stylesheet reference is inserted
directly by the Theming process & I have no opportunity to specify it as a
root reference or otherwise! Unless I'm going completely mad, that is, but
thank you for the suggestion.

Anybody got any ideas how to hook into the theme process?

Cheers again!!

"Stefano" wrote:

Hi,

I think the only way to solve this problem is to put the reference to the
css as absolute url:
"/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css"

When you insert a "/" as the first character, the browser always points to
the root of the site.

HTH

Bye,
Stefano

"Graham" <Gr****@discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:92**********************************@microsof t.com...

I have a problem that I can see the reason for but cannot figure out a
solution.

I am using a simple URL rewriter to map www.me.com/1/2/3/4/product.aspx to
www.me.com/product?filter=1/2/3/4 to make my site Google-friendly. The

site

dynamically adopts the correct master pages and themes according to a host
header-based query in SQL 2005 and via a custom sqlsitemapdatasource
automagically configures a breadcrumb and menus, all of which work
wonderfully.
However the theme's stylesheet is always declared in the page as a

relative

reference (e.g. "Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css") which means that for the
rewritten rule the browser client will be looking for
"www.me.com/1/2/3/4/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css". Does anybody have a

way

of specifying that this be output as a url relative to root
("~/blah/blah/...") as I don't want to have to do a replace on render

because

of the hit per page that would incur.

Ta!!

[v]

"Graham" wrote:

Hi there

Yes that would be the solution but the stylesheet reference is inserted
directly by the Theming process & I have no opportunity to specify it as a
root reference or otherwise! Unless I'm going completely mad, that is, but
thank you for the suggestion.

Anybody got any ideas how to hook into the theme process?

Cheers again!!

"Stefano" wrote:

Hi,

I think the only way to solve this problem is to put the reference to the
css as absolute url:
"/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css"

When you insert a "/" as the first character, the browser always points to
the root of the site.

HTH

Bye,
Stefano

"Graham" <Gr****@discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:92**********************************@microsof t.com...

I have a problem that I can see the reason for but cannot figure out a
solution.

I am using a simple URL rewriter to map www.me.com/1/2/3/4/product.aspx to
www.me.com/product?filter=1/2/3/4 to make my site Google-friendly. The

site

dynamically adopts the correct master pages and themes according to a host
header-based query in SQL 2005 and via a custom sqlsitemapdatasource
automagically configures a breadcrumb and menus, all of which work
wonderfully.
However the theme's stylesheet is always declared in the page as a

relative

reference (e.g. "Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css") which means that for the
rewritten rule the browser client will be looking for
"www.me.com/1/2/3/4/Themes/me.com/stylesheet.css". Does anybody have a

way

of specifying that this be output as a url relative to root
("~/blah/blah/...") as I don't want to have to do a replace on render

because

of the hit per page that would incur.

Ta!!